Improvement in vegetable-slicers



EQMONEUSE.

Vegetb-le-Slicer.

Patented Jan. 19.1875.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIE MONEUS, on nnw YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEGE'ABLE-SLlCERS.

Specificaton forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,803, dated January 19, 1875; application 1i1ed May 27,1874,

To all whom it may Concem:

, Be itknown that I, ELIE MONEUSE, of the city and State of New York, have invented au ImproVed Slicer for Potatoes, &c., of which the following is a specification:

Slicers have beenmade in which a revolvin g disk is employed con taining cuttinghlades that remove successive slices from the potatoes or other vegetables placed in a hopper. In these .machines the potatoes are liable to turn around, and the slices are nncqual in size or tlnckness.

My machine is made for cntting the potatoes in slices 0f uniform thickness, in order that the pieces may be exposed to a corresponding frying operation, and all similarly cooked, instead of some pieces being burned while the thicker picces are not donc.

1 employ a cutter-plate revolved horizontally between two set-screws, so that the parts can be adjusted,'wear compensated for, and looseness in the gearing or in the disk prevented. A hopper of cylindrical or prismatic form is used therewith, and is adapted to receive potatoes supplied one at a time in succession, so that the potatoes are sliced with nniformity as they are pressed down upon the surface of the cuttingdisk.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 is a section through the center of the disk and feeding-cylinder.

The clamping-screw on and jaws b serve to attach the machine t0 a box or other receptacle for the sliced potato or other vegetable, and the frame 0 61 is formed with or attached to this clamping-jaw. The driving-shaft 6 is to be revolved by a crank-handle, f, and it is sustained in the portions 2 3 of the frame (I, and oarries at its end the spur-wheel h, that gears into a pinion, 2, near the hub of the cutter-disk l. The portion 3 of the frame is extended over the wheel h, and receives the centcr screw M, and a Similar screw, 0, passes np from the part 0 of the frame, and between these screws n and 0 the cutter-disk is sustained and adjnsted, so that there Will not be unnecessary friction; neither Will there be an; looseness of the parts.

I have shown the screws n and 0 With coni cal points entering cavities in the hub of the disk, and a lubricating-hole passing from one cavity to the other. The ends, however, of

' the screws 11. and 0 may be recessed, and the disk provided With central projecting teats or cones entering snob recesses in the ends of the screws. The set-nuts v w prevent the screws becoming loose.

In the dis]: l are openings With inclined seats for receiving the plane-irons that act as cutters. These cutters may be plain or corrugated, and set at any desired distance from the surface of the disk, so as [0 out the required thickness of slice; and if the knives are properly positioned and corrugated they can be made to cut up cylindrical or polygonal strips of vegetable substance, or to cut flutcd undulating or fiat slices. The feeding-cylinder 1 is open at both ends, and it is secured in place by the straps 8 8, or arms, and into it the potatoes are placed one by one and pressed clown by hand, the preceding potato being forced clown by the succeeding one until entirely ont up.

. If desired, a plunger, m, might be employed in the cylinder 1, t0 press the last portion et the potato down against the cutters until fully sliccd up. A

This construction of machine allows of one disk being removed, and another substituted With difierent kinds of knives, and the simplicity of construction is such that anordinary cool; can adjust the parts and keep the machine in order, and the machine is rapid in operation and cheap in construction.

I claim as my inverition lhe horizontal revolving cutter-disk SIL.- tained between the screws n and 0, in combination With the frame c d, bent arn1 3, and gear-wheels as set forth.

Signed by me this 22d day of May, A. D. 1874.

ELIE MONEUSE.

Witne5ses GE0. T. PINCKNEY, GEO. D. WALKER. 

